in facter older than 1.5 some systems (like rh< 5) dmidecode facts will not be parsed correctly.
you could add more facts easily in the manufacture.rb file Ohad On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Jason Kohles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Mike Renfro wrote: > > > > > On 9/12/2008 11:40 AM, Richard wrote: > > > >> I am probably way off base here but I wanted to do something similar > >> (I think) although I'm not using environments, yet. I have multiple > >> types of hardware (1U rack & small desktop box) that I want to manage > >> with the same set of files. However the only way I can tell them > >> apart is by hostname; factor doesn't really have any way to > >> distinguish between the hardware. > > > > I think it might, actually. Not sure how it's getting it, but here's > > an > > abridged paste from one of my older Ubuntu workstations that appears > > to > > include manufacturer, model, and even the service tag or some other > > serial number: > > > > It's getting that information from the BIOS, using dmidecode. If you > have hosts that don't include that information in their facter output, > make sure you have dmidecode installed on them... > > -- > Jason Kohles, RHCA RHCDS RHCE > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.jasonkohles.com/ > "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---